A call to end Apache® Software Foundation's appropriation of Apache culture
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The Apache License, which is GNU's recommended "permissive" license (due to its provisions against the legal problems caused by software patents, brought about in part by the US Patent and Trademark Office's lenience in granting trivial patents), is currently used by over 2 million projects on GitHub and potentially millions more elsewhere.
This License relies on a URL at the domain "apache.org".
Changing the "apache.org" domain could now potentially cause legal complications for millions of community projects around the world.
Therefore, I wonder if there could be a solution that does not go as far as requesting the Apache Software Foundation to rename itself completely. For example, might it be good enough if the Apache Software Foundation simply stopped using a feather in its logo, published an apology for any harm done, revised the naming of new projects to move away from "Indian"-derived names, considered renaming existing projects when they reach major version milestones, and adjusted the way it refers to Indigenous peoples on its website, but kept the name of its Foundation along with its domain and License on the grounds that changing these things would now be prohibitively awkward for communities around the globe and could even make Indigenous peoples look bad for requiring so much? In other words, to say "you shouldn't have called it Apache, but seeing as everyone is now in this mess, we will let you carry on calling it Apache but you have to be more careful with your paragraphs and logos etc". Could that work?
I am not Indigenous and I am not American, therefore I am not qualified to judge this. I'm only asking a question from a practical point of view as a normal free-software developer who uses the Apache licence for my projects. Thanks.
[Edit: fixed typo]
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